[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Literature, language and dating](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature) › [A History of Indian Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927) › v2.c19.s3.t2.155 # A History of Indian Literature v2.c19.s3.t2.155 A History of Indian Literature v2.c19.s3.t2.155 - **Language:** English ### [v2.c19.s3.t2.155](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927.v2.c19.s3.t2.155) ¹ Mrs. \*Rhys Davids\*, too (Psalms of the Sisters, p. xviii f.) regards the last two "Songs of the Lady Elders" as products of later ornate poetry. away of the Buddha; so also Saṃyuttanikāya I, p. 158: but Buddha himself speaks the verse in Saṃyuttanikāya II, p. 193. The verse occurs again in Saṃy. I, pp. 6 and 200, and Jātaka, Vol. I, p. 392. K. E. Neumann (Lieder der Mönche und Nonnen, p. 243) says: "This famous saying is so popular that it was recited to me in pure Pāli by a servant in Colombo, and, what is still more significant in this case, was excellently interpreted by him in a popular way." - [Previous: v2.c19.s3.t2.154](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927.v2.c19.s3.t2.154) - [Next: v2.c19.s3.t2.156](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927.v2.c19.s3.t2.156) - [Up: v2.c19.s3.t2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927.v2.c19.s3.t2) ## Cites (3) - [Jātakatthavaṇṇanā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.khuddaka.jataka!jatakatthavannana*cst.1.10.5.p1) — Pāli - [Vepullapabbatasutta](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.samyutta.2.15.20.5.1) — Pāli - [Saṃyuttanikāya](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.samyutta) — Pāli --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927.v2.c19.s3.t2.155](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927.v2.c19.s3.t2.155) · Pramāṇa